The Peerless Kobold - Chapter 76
However, due to the convenience of Healing Magic, priests are treated more highly as medical professionals than doctors, while doctors are treated as shady people, but…
“Healing magic is ineffective against it.”
“….Everyone, let’s pray!!”
Unlike the clergy, they do not have the virtue of giving up.
Ernesta believed that doctors struggle until a cure can be found.
“I guess that’s all the information we’re getting from here. Let’s go back to the castle.”
“Yes, Lady Ernesta.”
Her subordinates were inwardly relieved that their boss did not say something unreasonable like, take the patient’s blood and bring it back with us.
They had been instructed by the Head Mage to stop her at all costs if she had said something reckless.
“…I’m just one person and I’m also considering the risk of being infected. If someone I care about falls ill, I’ll do what I have to do, but I’m not willing to risk my life for them under the circumstances. Are you willing to risk your life for someone you don’t know?
“… No, I would not.”
“Good… If you had agreed, then I would’ve advised my foster father to dismiss you.”
She beamed cheerfully.
Based on appearance alone, she was a silver-haired, blue-eyed beauty, but…
“May I ask why?”
“I believe that the more there are people who don’t value themselves, the more people they’ll bring to the mix when they self-destruct, you see.”
She said it in a light-hearted tone, but the mage let out a heavy sigh as he thought he would lose his job the next day if he had answered incorrectly.
“Don’t just sigh there, get a grip! If what the records say about the effects of his disease-bringing magic is true, then we would become busy from having to attend to at least a thousand patients every day.”
“… It just makes me feel unnecessarily depressed.”
According to previous records, Alvesta always appears suddenly in large cities with populations numbering in the tens of thousands or more, sporadically causing a rain of reddish-black blood to fall, and spreading the bloodborne disease.
It begins with the clergy living in the Holy Cathedrals, affecting about a hundred people in one day, and a thousand from the next day onwards, and finally affecting about 20,000 people before it disappears. However, more than 90% of the affected people succumb to the disease a month or so after Alvesta leaves…
“For the early measures, have the materials from the Great Library regarding Alvesta been gathered in my office already?”
“Yes, it should be fine, but other materials such as the appearance of a High Kobold that could comprehend human language is still being processed by the Adventurer’s Guild, so it may take a bit longer.”
“That one’s the real deal, so it would be nice if they could hurry up with that.”
After saying that, Ernesta turned on her heel and left the cathedral.
